Screaming kids at the restaurant

I've had enough of squeamish screeching 9-year-olds gallivanting themselves across McDonald's, gargling an upchuck of french fries. Fine. It's supposed to be a fun place. I could care less if my ears bleed. I chose to eat here and I'll suck it up, however this anarchy takes place at luxurious and well-paid-for restaurants! LIKE I"VE SAID, I"VE HAD IT!!

Not everything you wrote, I agree upon, though. Are you completely antagonistic towards children? Your contraception quote is a beckoning for psychiatric therapy, not a gripe.
"...a woman who wasn't clever enough to use contraception."
This description, perhaps, fits your mother who very well may have misplaced HER contraceptive. Mind you, when I have sex with my married wife, I mean it.

Everyone has rights. when my rights or anyone elses, are infringed on, by an ignorant parent with toddlers, or brats, then it is not right. Kids can,t drink in bars, I don,t want someone screaming next to me at the theatre, and I certainly don,t want to spend 100 dollars on a fine bottle of wine and 100 dollars on a meal , only to have to choke it down , because of unruly children. I have two children. So what!! They stay home when I go out. I wouldn,t waste money taking them to the opera, and won,t annoy other patrons with my kids. People just don,t get it! your kids are not that cute, that I need to see them run around and cutting up at a restaurant. People get this obnoxious idea in their head that EVERYONE thinks their kid is cute! Do everyone a favor, If you can,t afford a babysitter, you definately can,t afford the dinner ! And it is NOT anyones right to aggrivate someone else at THEIR expense!!!!!

oh for goodness sake people¬!!!!!!! YOU were all kids once! get a grip! you should be allowed to take your kids wherever you damn well please. why should parents take their kids to macdonalds, only then to get slated by you same people for feeding them rubbish??? if parents want to take their kids to nice foody places to feed them nice healthy food. even the most well behaved kids misbehave sometimes. they dont understand as well as adults, and suggesting that parents should 'beat their kids' is disgusting. you should be ashamed of yourselves. all the toffs have started inventing stupid hotels in the uk where you can take your self off to a kid free hotel so why dont you bog off there, the lot of you!

Lets teach children whos in charge! so safron , melody,chardonnay,gemma,tarquin,& all you middle class little s****s,take you & mummy back to your audi ,mini cooper ,go home,& leave decent people alone..

My Parents used to beat me till I cried, then beat me till I stopped it never did me any harm

It always seems to be the children of middle class professionals whose children are the worst behaved in restaurants.
They always seem to have names like 'Inigo' and 'Saffron' and are totally indulged by their parents who seem oblivious to the chaos their offspring are inflicting.

Give the screaming little brats a taste of good old fashioned discipline.Hit them hard where it really hurts.They will think twice about misbehaving next time in a restaurant.

Leave your undisciplined monsters at home!! We do not go out to dine and pay expensive restaurant prices to listen to your unruly brats!! Stay home or hire baby sitter. Nothing worse than screaming, yelling, running around brats.

Supernanny never advocated ignoring misbehavior in a restaurant. She'd suggest taking them home!

In New york City, most restaurants have a "zero tolerance" policy on unruly children. They will ask you to leave. Some restaurants will warn you of this policy if you enter with kids.

But it's your responsibility to speak up.

Re-"notsogrumpy".At last,someone who talks a lot of sense.One must draw a fine parallel between the stupid idiotic namby pamby politically correct nanny type do gooders who are in favour of the rights of the child and beating the living daylights out of them like they did not so long ago.Let them have their tantrum,then take them outside and give them a dose of good old fashioned discipline.These brats need to learn how to behave.

"Those super nanny type people on TV say that you should ignore them, let them play the tantrum out. Well that is all well and good at home, but I am paying for a meal in a nice restaurant which is being spoilt by a woman who wasn’t clever enough to use contraception."

Actually they don't say this. In a restaurant children should be given one warning and if the behaviour continues taken outside. Either let the behaviour die down there or take the child home. And yes that means end of dinner for the parents too.

I saw a woman beating the crap out of an unruly toddler in Tescos the other day.At last someone who is prepared to make a stand.What is needed is a good dose of old fashioned discipline.It did me no harm as a boy back in the thirties.I still have the scars to prove it.And I have respected my parents for it ever since.